2010- 2011 At-A-Glance for Lucy Calkins' Units of Study
August/ September
Unit 1- Launching the Writing Workshop
October/ November
Unit 2- Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing
November/ December
Unit 3- Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies
January
Review: Unit 2: Small Moments and Unit 3: Writing for Readers
February
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 1- Writing How-To Books
March/April
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 2- Writing All-About Books
April/May
Unit 7- Poetry Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Unit 1- Launching the Writing Workshop
August
Tuesday, 24th
Free Write
In this seesion, you will encourage the students to write a story the best they can using pictures and words. This will allow you to see where the students are in their writing.
Wednesday, 25th
Lesson 1: Starting the Writing Workshop
In this session, you will model the process of choosing a topic, sketching it, and then writing a tiny bit about it.
Thursday, 26th
Lesson: Starting the Writing Workshop
Friday, 27th
Lesson 1: Starting the Writing Workshop
Monday, 30th
Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers
In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by adding more to their picture.
Tuesday, 31th
Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers
In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by adding more to their words.
September
Wednesday, 1st
Lesson 2: Carrying on Independently as Writers
In this session, you will show writers how they can keep working by starting a new piece of writing.
Thursday, 2nd
Lesson 3: Using Supplies Independently
You'll move your students towards independence by teaching then where to find and how to take care of the tools they need for the writing workshop-- can of pencils, boxes of markers, the date stamp, and their writing folders.
Friday, 3rd
Lesson 3: Using Supplies Independently
Tuesday, 7th
Lesson 4: Telling Stories in Illustrations
This session will teach students that writers can decide on a topic, envision it, and then record that meaning on the page with drawings that are representaional.
Wednesday, 8th
Lesson 4: Telling Stories in Illustrations
Thursday, 9th
Lesson 5: Drawing Even Hard-to-Make Ideas
In this session, you'll encourage students not to be held back by not being able to draw exactly what they are thinking but instead to draw the best they can and keep going.
Friday, 10th
Lesson 5: Drawing Even Hard-to-Make Ideas
Monday, 13th
Lesson 6: Using Both Pictures and Words, Like Famous Authors
You remind children in this session that authors write pictures and words, and you will nudge them to do the same.
Tuesday, 14th
Lesson 6: Using Both Pictures and Words, Like Famous Authors
Wednesday, 15th
Lesson 7: Stretching and Writing Words
In this session, you will help writers separate out the many sounds they hear in words and write down the letters that correspond to those sounds.
Thursday, 16th
Lesson 8: Stretching and Writing Words: Initial Sounds
For now, you will show students how to listen hard to how words start so that they can get those first letters down on the page for their readers.
Friday, 17th
Lesson 8: Stretching and Writing Words: Initial Sounds
Monday, 20th
Lesson 9: Spelling the Best We Can...and Moving On
In this session, you will teach writers to accept their own approximate spellings in order to tell more about their stories.
Tuesday, 21st
Lesson 10: Using Writing Tools: The Alphabet Chart
You will show students in this session how to match the sound they hear in the word they want to write with a letter that represents it, using an alphabet chart with pictures for help.
Wednesday, 22nd
Lesson 10: Using Writing Tools: The Alphabet Chart
Thursday, 23rd
Lesson 11: Creating a Place for Writing-in-Progress: Long Term Projects
After this session, children will see that they can add more writing to the same piece, and they'll use a system to separte finished from unfinished work.
Friday, 24th
Lesson 11: Creating a Place for Writing-in-Progress: Long Term Projects
Monday, 27th
Lesson 12: Introducing Booklets
This session will allow you to teacher children to plan for and write a book with several pages.
Tuesday, 28th
Lesson 12: Introducing Booklets
Wednesday, 29th
Lesson 15: Fixing Up Writing
In this session, you will teach children that writers fix up and revise their writing so it says everythingthey mean it to say before it's sent out in the world.
Thursday, 30th
Lesson 16: Editing and Fancying Up Writing
You will teach students how to reread, check, and edit their writing to make sure it's readable. Then, mid-workshop, you will teach them to fancy up their work by adding details with colored pencils.
October
Friday, 1st
Lesson 17: Reading into the Circle: An Author's Celebration
In this session, children will read a favorite part of their writing to the whole class, then all of their writing to a small group, then will enjoy refreshments and post-unit talk.
Unit 2- Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing
Monday, 4th
Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story
This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important.
Tuesday, 5th
Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment
In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page.
Wednesday, 6th
Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story
Thursday, 7th
Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment
Friday, 8th
Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment
Tuesday, 12th
Lesson 3: Establishing Long-Term Partnerships
This minilesson will establish partnerships and ask children to revisit their partner's work from the preceding session to planfor upcoming work.
Wednesday, 13th
Lesson 3: Establishing Long-Term Partnerships
Thursday, 14th
Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment
This session will invite children to listen to how a published author stretches a moment across several pages. Children will then learn to plan their own writing in the presence of partners by touching each page and saying what they'll write.
Friday, 15th
Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment
Monday, 18th
Lesson 5: Stretching and Writing Words
In this session, you will help wiriters learn to separate out the many sounds they hear in words and write down the letters that correspond to those sounds.
Tuesday, 19th
Lesson 6: Sketching Rather Than Drawing
This session will teach the difference between sketching and drawing, emphasizing the sketching is appropriate in the writing workshop so we can reserve time for writing.
Wednesday, 20th
Lesson 7: Planning Details
This lesson will encourage children to plan detailed stories by saying those stories aloud before writing them.
Thursday, 21st
Lesson 7: Planning Details
Friday, 22nd
Lesson 7: Planning Details
Monday, 25th
Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes
The plan for this session will be to teach children the strategy of telling a story across one's fingers to help children produce stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Tuesday, 26th
Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes
Wednesday, 27th
Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes
Thursday, 28th
Lesson 9: Storytelling with Partners
In this session, children will learn to practice telling stories across their fingers to their partners to coax more structure into their writing.
Friday, 29th
Lesson 9: Sotrytelling with Partners
November
Monday, 1st
Lesson 10: Writing Some Words in a Snap
In this session, you'll show children that writers write certain words quickly, either by just knowing them or by taking a quick look at the word wall.
Tuesday, 2nd
Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part
In this session, you will demonstrate that writers think "What is the most important part of my story?" and then they make that aspect of their story important by adding details to that part and cutting away the other parts.
Wednesday, 3rd
Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part
Thursday, 4th
Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories
In this session, you will help children learn to unfold the pleats and reveal the internal stories (The reactions, thoughts, observations, feelings) in their pieces.
Friday, 5th
Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories
Monday, 8th
Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Story Endings
In this session, you'll teach children some guidelines for writing effective story endings, suggesting that it often helps to stay closer to the heart of the story rather than writing away from it.
Tuesday, 9th
Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Endings
Wednesday, 10th
Lesson 14: Revising and Editing with Partners
This session will teach children some strategies for making revisions to their pieces, and you'll help writers support their partner's revisions.
Thursday, 11th
Lesson 14: Revising and Editing with Partners
Friday, 12th
Lesson 15: Reading Aloud for Visitors: An Author's Celebration
In this publishing party, children will read their stories aloud to their reading buddies--or any other visitors. The visitors will write comments in response, and all the writers as a class will receive a big round of applause.
Unit 3- Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies
Monday, 15th
Lesson 1: Inspiring Chidlren to Write for Readers
In this session, you will aim to convey the big picture of this new unit. Specifically, you'll inspire children to work harder and in new ways so that others can read their writing.
Tuesday, 16th
Lesson 2: Examining Readable and Unreadable Writing
You'll ask the children in this session to look back on their own work and divide their writing into piles of more- and less- readable writing, noting the qualities of each.
Wednesday, 17th
Lesson 3: Stretching and Writing Words
In this session, you'll encourage your children to hear and record more sounds in the words they write.
Thursday, 18th
Lesson 4: Writing with Sight Words
You'll remind children in this session that writers rely on sight words, not just stretching words and recording the sounds, to write with more fluency.
Friday, 19th
Lesson 4: Writting with Sight Words
Monday, 22nd
Lesson 5: Spacing Words
In this session, you'll teach children that it's important to leave a finger-sized blank space when they hear no more sounds in a word.
Tuesday, 23rd
Lesson 5: Spacing Words
Monday, 29th
Lesson 6: Checking Content: Focused Small Moment Stories
In this session, you'll remind writers that their content matters; specifically, you'll encourage them to write focused narratives.
Tuesday, 30th
Lesson 6: Checking Content: Focused Small Moment Stories
December
Wednesday, 1st
Lesson 7: Learning More Sight Words
You'll remind children in this session how to learn and write some words in a snap, without sounding them out.
Thursday, 2nd
Lesson 7: Learning More Sight Words
Friday, 3rd
Lesson 8: Using Personal Word Walls
In this session, you'll teach your children how to use their individual copies of the word wall as a resource when they write.
Monday, 6th
Lesson 9: Writing More, and More Clearly
In this session, you'll remind writers that they need to write one story each day, across three pages, with a picture and a sentence or two on each page, while at the same time writing so that others can read it.
Tuesday, 7th
Lesson 9: Writing More, and More Clearly
Wednesday, 8th
Lesson 10: Writing for Partners
The message in this session with be, "As you write, remember you are writing for a friend who will try to read your work."
Thursday, 9th
Lesson 11: Revising with Partners
In this session, you will teach an opening minilesson to rally writers to write a lot and write for readers. In a longer minilession at the end of the session, you will teach partners to reread each other's writing to fing and fill in missing words.
Friday, 10th
Lesson 12: Peer-Editing: Adding More Sounds
You will encourage your writers in this session to help each other incldue more letters in each word, making their writing easier to read.
Monday, 13th
Lesson 13: Peer-Editing: Spelling
In this session, students in partnerships help each other spell word-wall words correctly and easily when they write.
Tuesday, 14th
Lesson 14: Peer-Editing: Punctuation
In this session, you'll encourage children to write with at least a sentence on each page,and you'll help writers learn more about the placement on periods.
Wednesday, 15th
Lesson 15: Selecting Easy-to-Read Writing
You will ask your writers in this session to make an easy-to-read pile and a hard-to-read pile of their writing once again, and once again atlk about what makes writing easy to read
Thursday, 16th
Fancying Up
You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces.
Friday, 17th
Lesson 16: Sharing and Reflection: An Author's Celebration
In the final session of this unit, your writers will share their stories with guests and classmates. Your children will receive congratulations for their work, and they will have a chance to talk about what they have learned to do to make writing easier to read.
Review Unit 2: Small Moments and Unit 3: Writing for Readers
January
Tuesday, 4th
Small Moments: Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story
This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important.
Wednesday, 5th
Small Moments: Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment
In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page.
Thursday, 6th
Small Moments: Lesson 1: Understanding a Small Moment Story
This session will show children that authors write Small Moments stories and stretch the action across several pages because the moment is so important.
Friday, 7th
Small Moments: Lesson 2: Discovering One Small Moment
In this lesson, you will write a story in the air of one moment, demonstrating concentrating on and picturing the moment while you put it on the page.
Monday, 10th
Small Moments: Lesson 4: Stretching One Small Moment
This session will invite children to listen to how a published author stretches a moment across several pages. Children will then learn to plan their own writing in the presence of partners by touching each page and saying what they'll write.
Remind the students the purpose of their writing. Go around to check and remind about writing for readers.*
Tuesday, 11th
Small Moments: Lesson 7: Planning Details
This lesson will encourage children to plan detailed stories by saying those stories aloud before writing them.
Wednesday, 12th
Small Moments: Lesson 7: Planning Details
Thursday, 13th
Small Moments: Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes
The plan for this session will be to teach children the strategy of telling a story across one's fingers to help children produce stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Friday, 14th
Small Moments: Lesson 8: Internalizing Story Shapes
Tuesday, 18th
Small Moments: Lesson 11: Focusing on the Most Important Part
In this session, you will demonstrate that writers think "What is the most important part of my story?" and then they make that aspect of their story important by adding details to that part and cutting away the other parts.
Wednesday, 19th
Small Moments: Lesson 12: Revealing Internal Stories
In this session, you will help children learn to unfold the pleats and reveal the internal stories (The reactions, thoughts, observations, feelings) in their pieces.
Thursday, 20th
Small Moments: Lesson 13: Writing Close-In Endings
In this session, you'll teach children some guidelines for writing effective story endings, suggesting that it often helps to stay closer to the heart of the story rather than writing away from it.
Friday, 21st
Writing for Readers: Lesson 11: Revising with Partners
In this session, you will teach an opening minilesson to rally writers to write a lot and write for readers. In a longer minilession at the end of the session, you will teach partners to reread each other's writing to fing and fill in missing words.
Monday, 24th
Writing for Readers: Lesson 12: Adding More Sounds
You will encourage your writers in this session to help each other incldue more letters in each word, making their writing easier to read.
Tuesday, 25th
Writing for Readers: Lesson 13: Spelling
In this session, students in partnerships help each other spell word-wall words correctly and easily when they write.
Wednesday, 26th
Writing for Readers: Lesson 14: Punctuation
In this session, you'll encourage children to write with at least a sentence on each page,and you'll help writers learn more about the placement on periods.
Thursday, 27th
Fancying Up
You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces.
Friday, 28th
Reading Aloud for Visitors: An Author's Celebration
In this publishing party, children will read their stories aloud to their reading buddies--or any other visitors. The visitors will write comments in response, and all the writers as a class will receive a big round of applause.
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 1- Writing How-To Books
Some students will have the opportunity to publish 2 How-To Books.
Monday, 31st
Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books
In this session you will tell students that they will be teachers as well as writers; specifically, they will write to teach others how to do something.
February
Tuesday, 1st
Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books
Wednesday, 2nd
Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity
Your plan will be to help children understand the purpose and requirements of this genre by showing them that How-To writing must enable a reader to do what is being taught.
Thursday, 3rd
Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity
Friday, 4th
Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity
Monday, 7th
Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures
In this lesson, you will show how you tried to read one child's directions, how you encountered confusions, and how the author will revise his words and pictures to make them more explicit.
Tuesday, 8th
Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures
Wednesday, 9th
Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing
You will teach your children that as writers of How-To books, they probably want to give their readers "helpers," as you call the text features of this genre.
Thursday, 10th
Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing
Friday, 11th
Lesson 4: Incorporating Featers of How-To Writing
Monday, 14th
Lesson 5: Revising: Learning from a Variety of How-To Writing
You will remind children that the world is full of huge variety of How-To texts and that they can learn lessons for their own writing by studying these.
Tuesday, 15th
Lesson 6: Editing: Using Periods, Parentheses, and Colons
You will want to ask your children to select one text to publish. They will need to double check their revisions of that book and then turn their attention to editing. A celebration will follow
Wednesday, 16th
Lesson 1: Introducing How-To Books
In this session you will tell students that they will be teachers as well as writers; specifically, they will write to teach others how to do something.
Thursday, 17th
Lesson 2: Checking for Clarity
Your plan will be to help children understand the purpose and requirements of this genre by showing them that How-To writing must enable a reader to do what is being taught.
Friday, 18th
Lesson 3: Revising Words and Pictures
In this lesson, you will show how you tried to read one child's directions, how you encountered confusions, and how the author will revise his words and pictures to make them more explicit.
Tuesday, 22nd
Lesson 4: Incorporating Features of How-To Writing
You will teach your children that as writers of How-To books, they probably want to give their readers "helpers," as you call the text features of this genre.
Wednesday, 23rd
Lesson 5: Revising: Learning from a Variety of How-To Writing
You will remind children that the world is full of huge variety of How-To texts and that they can learn lessons for their own writing by studying these.
Thursday, 24th
Lesson 6: Editing: Using Periods, Parentheses, and Colons
You will want to ask your children to select one text to publish. They will need to double check their revisions of that book and then turn their attention to editing.
Friday, 25th
Author's Celebration
Ceremonial Placement of How-To books. (Choose a place to have these out: library, classroom library, hallway, etc.)
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 2 Writing All About Books
Monday, 28th
Lesson 7: Introducing All-About Books
In this minilesson, your children will student the whole text of The Pumpkin Book to glimpse the overall structure of the information (or "All-About") writing.
March
Tuesday, 1st
Lesson 7: Introducing All-About Books
Wednesday, 2nd
Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents
In this minilesson, you will ask each child to anticipate the chapters he or she might write on a topic and to draft a Table of Contents.
Thursday, 3rd
Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents
Friday, 4th
Lesson 8: Structuring All-About Books: The Table of Contents
Monday, 7th
Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures
You will show children that in some of their chapters they might teach readers how to do something and, if so, they will need how-to paper. You will show them that in other chapters they might teach readers that there are different kinds of something and, if so, they will need paper that matches that genre.
Tuesday, 8th
Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures
Wednesday, 9th
Lesson 9: Planning Each Chapter: Choosing Papers and Structures
Thursday, 10th
Lesson 10: Making Labeled Diagrams
You will reinforce the lesson from the previous session and teach that sometimes writers want to teach readers about the different parts of a thing.
Friday, 11th
Lesson 10: Making Labeled Diagrams
Monday, 21st
Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach
In this minilesson, you will teach children that nonfiction writers need to include facts that teach in their writing and that they do research by learning from books on their topics.
Tuesday, 22nd
Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach
Wednesday, 23rd
Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach
Thursday, 24th
Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach
Friday, 25th
Lesson 11: Making Texts that Teach
Monday, 28th
Lesson 12: Revising: Learning from Each Other's Writing
You will teach children that they can learn not only from published authors but from each other as well.
Tuesday, 29th
Lesson 12: Revising: Learning from Each Other's Writing
Wednesday, 30th
Lesson 13: Revising: Fitting Information into Writing
You will suggest that writers reread and revise nonfiction writing, asking, "Does anything in this chapter belong elsewhere?"
Thursday, 31st
Lesson 13: Revising: Fitting Information into Writing
April
Friday, 1st
Lesson 14: Editing: Becoming Resourceful Word Solvers
In this minilesson, you will teach children how to be resourceful word solvers as they face bigger words.
Monday, 4th
Fancying Up
You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces.
Tuesday, 5th
Lesson 15: Celebrating Nonfiction Writing: Ceremonial Book Placement
In today's celebration, children will carefully put their books on the shelves of the school library.
Unit 7- Poetry: powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Wednesday, 6th
Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eyes
In this session, you'll invite youngsters to spend a few days writing about objects. You'll help children see the concrete details of their lives in fresh ways.
Thursday, 7th
Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eye
Friday, 8th
Lesson 1: Seeing with the Poet's Eye
Monday, 11th
Lesson 2: Listening for Line Breaks
In this session, students will learn how to change their observational notes into poems by experimenting with format.
Tuesday, 12th
Lesson 2: Listening for Line Breaks
Wednesday 13th
Lesson 3: Hearing the Music in Poetry
In this session, you'll say, "Reread your poems, making your voice support the meaning in them."
Thursday, 14th
Lesson 3: Hearing the Music in Poetry
Friday, 15th
Lesson 4: Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
In this session, you'll remind your writers of the importance of topic choice and of writing about subjects that matter to them very much.
Monday, 18th
Lesson 4: Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Tuesday, 19th
Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem
This minilesson will help children sort through their observations, finding one or two that deserve to be made into poems.
Wednesday, 20th
Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem
Thursday, 21st
Lesson 5: Finding Ingredients for a Poem
Monday, 25th
Lesson 6: Showing, Not Telling
In this session, your lesson will be that poets, like writers of stories, often convey strong feelings by creating images.
Tuesday, 26th
Lesson 6: Showing, Not Telling
Wednesday, 27th
Lesson 7: Hearing the Voices of Poetry
In this session, you'll teach children that poets invigorate their poems with poetic language.
Thursday, 28th
Lesson 7: Hearing the Voices of Poetry
Friday, 29th
Lesson 8: Searching for Honest, Precise Words
In this session, you'll encourage children to reach for the word that exactly matches what they are trying to say.
May
Monday, 2nd
Lesson 8: Searching for Honest, Precise Words
Tuesday, 3rd
Lesson 9: Patterning on the Page
In this session, you'll introduce repetition and other structures in poems, explaining that poets use patterns to support their meaning.
Wednesday, 4th
Lesson 9: Patterning on the Page
Thursday, 5th
Lesson 10: Using Comparisons to Convey Feelings
In this session, you'll let children know that another way to express big feelings is to say the feelings are like something else.
Friday, 6th
Lesson 10: Using Comparisons to Convey Feelings
Monday, 9th
Lesson 11: Contrasting Ordinary and Poetic Language
In this session, your point will be that poets use comparisons and artful language to convey a sound, an image, an observations, an idea--almost anything.
Tuesday, 10th
Lesson 11: Contrasting Ordinary and Poetic Language
Wednesday, 11th
Lesson 12: Stretching Out a Comparison (Sustaining a Metephor)
In this minilesson, you'll teach children that poets stay with, develop, their comparisons.
Thursday, 12th
Lesson 12: Stretching Out a Comparison (Sustaining a Metaphor)
Friday, 13th
Lesson 13: Finding Treasures in Discarded Drafts
In this session, you'll suggest that sometimes in the midst of a not very special poem, a poet will find a bit that deserves to be kept and made into a new poem.
Monday, 16th
Lesson 13: Finding Treasures in Discarded Drafts
Tuesday, 17th
Lesson 14: Contrasting Poems with Stories
In this session, you will teach chldren how to turn story-like drafts into poems.
Wednesday, 18th
Lesson 14: Contrasting Poems with Stories
Thursday, 19th
Lesson 15: Revising and Editing Poetry
In this session, you'll teach children how to reread wtih pen in hand, carefully checking each word and then doing everything possible to fix words that require more attention.
Friday, 20th
Fancying Up
Lesson 16: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's Celebration
You will do a final check on the stories chosen, then the students will be able to add color to the selected pieces.
In this celebration, you'll help children make their poems public by posting them in the community and reading them to various audiences.
2010- 2011 At-A-Glance for Lucy Calkins' Units of Study
Unit 1- Launching the Writing Workshop
Unit 2- Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing
Unit 3- Writing for Readers: Teaching Skills and Strategies
Review Unit 2: Small Moments and Unit 3: Writing for Readers
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 1- Writing How-To Books
Unit 6- Nonfiction Writing: Procedures and Reports: Part 2 Writing All About Books
Unit 7- Poetry: powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Lesson 16: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's Celebration
In this celebration, you'll help children make their poems public by posting them in the community and reading them to various audiences.